It was on 05 Aug that 33 miners had got trapped 2,500ft deep, within the bowels of the San Jose copper and gold mine, in the northern Atacama desert of Chile. They’d spent an agonizing 69 days, beneath a rubble of about 7 lakh tons of rock, before they’re rescued yesterday and the story of their survival is a saga of relentless faith coupled with a positive outlook.
What actually amazes me is the simple fact that the fate of all the 33 men are inexorably linked, that they’re ordained to go through a great catastrophe only to live again, so that the story of their survival would be passed on to successive generations, as an important lesson to be gleaned from this otherwise mysterious life.
An incredible story indeed and mind you, here's yet another occasion when truth is stranger than fiction!
And the 19th Commonwealth Games is behind us.
The grand closing ceremony is just behind us and I must admit that we’ve finally pulled it off. The most durable aspect of the Commonwealth Games – Delhi 2010 would definitely be the tremendous show of the Indian sportsmen with their rich haul of medals, as never before.
But we’ll have to brace ourselves for the petty fights of the organizers, over the days to come, when each of them are going to outdo and run down the other by coming up with stories of ineptitude, corruption and infighting – a fact, that we’re all aware of, right from the word go. I only hope the guilty is brought to book without fear or favour.
And as a Delhiite, I shall look forward to a peaceful drive to office tomorrow and hope that the local markets get stocked up quickly with essential items at their usual costs!!
Tailpiece.
I was so happy to see Aisha’s restructured face, after a plastic surgery. The young lady from Afghanistan had been brutally disfigured by her husband, a Taliban monster. May God give her a happy and prosperous life – she really deserves it after all the trauma that she’d to go through!!!
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